I write to you on behalf of the American Sociological Association (ASA), a professional society representing more than 12,000 sociologists around the world to express our deep and continued concern regarding the treatment of scholars who were signatories to the 2016 Academics for Peace petition, which called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict with the Kurds in south-east Turkey. The petition was initially signed by 1,128 scholars from 89 Turkish universities. Following the petition’s publication, state and higher education authorities in Turkey began launching criminal and administrative investigations against the signatories.